The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

If you follow your passion, the world will follow yours…

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

Where are you going?” “To get a Coke!” “Would you—” “No!

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.